JP2004231148A - Litter cleaner attachable to moving vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a litter cleaner which is attachable to and detachable from a moving vehicle such as a lift track and can clean a road surface during running. <P>SOLUTION: A litter cleaner 4 is constructed in an attachment 5 comprising a litter collection vessel 7 attached to a vehicle body 2 and a scraping means 15 which comes into sliding contact with a tire 3 to scrape litter adhered to the wheel tread 13 and allows the scraped litter to drop in the litter collection vessel 7. The scraping means 15 is provided with a rotatable brush 9, an arm 8, which is slidably supported on a pivoting axis 11 and rotatably supports the brush 9, and a spring 10 for pressing the brush 9 mounted on the arm 8 against the wheel tread 13 of the tire 3. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a garbage cleaner that can be mounted on a traveling vehicle that cleans a road surface by collecting and collecting garbage attached to tires of a work vehicle such as a forklift truck that performs various operations while traveling on a road surface such as a factory, a warehouse, and a road. About the vessel.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, work vehicles such as forklifts travel on road surfaces such as factories, warehouses, and roads in order to carry out various operations for transporting and moving objects such as parts and workpieces. The dirt such as contaminants and dust falling on the road adheres or scatters on the road surface, causing the road surface to be polluted. Usually, a vehicle that collects and cleans trash and the like on the road surface is a cleaning vehicle such as a road sweeper.
[0003]
2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a road cleaning vehicle, a vehicle provided with a rotating brush is known. The road cleaning vehicle has a rotating brush body that rotates when running wheels are pressed against the road surface. The rotating brush body is provided with a lateral rotating brush body in which the rotational force of one front running wheel is interlocked via a bevel gear and collects dust in the center. A vertical rotating brush body is provided, in which the rotational force of the other traveling wheel is interlocked via a wrapping transmission, and the dust collected by the horizontal rotating brush body is scraped up onto the storage body. These running wheels are connected to another driving vehicle or run by human power (for example, see Patent Document 1).
[0004]
Also, a cleaning device for an industrial vehicle is known. The cleaning device is provided with a work machine on a vehicle body, and has a horizontal axis at a bottom portion of the vehicle body which is rotatable by receiving a power from a driving source and which is rotatable in a traveling direction of the vehicle body, and a brush is fixed around the horizontal axis. In addition, a refuse collection box is provided inside the brush, the garbage collection box having an opening formed in the lower part so that the lower side of the brush protrudes downward (for example, see Patent Document 2).
[0005]
Also, a tire brush for an automobile that can remove dirt attached to a tire during traveling is known. The tire brush of the vehicle is fixed to a suspension portion having one end swingably suspended on a vehicle body or a wheel of the vehicle, a support portion rotatably attached to the other end of the suspension portion, and a support portion. It has a brush body, and is configured so that the brush body comes into contact with the side wall of the running tire and rotates together with the support portion (for example, see Patent Document 3).
[0006]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-5-346010 (page 1, FIG. 1)
[Patent Document 2]
JP-A-9-30787 (page 1, FIG. 3)
[Patent Document 3]
JP-A-10-217917 (page 1, FIG. 7)
[0007]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
By the way, when traveling vehicles such as work vehicles such as forklifts that perform various operations travel on road surfaces such as factories, warehouses, roads, etc., it is demanded that the dust on the road surface be cleaned by the tires without being scattered. Have been. For example, when a work vehicle such as a forklift travels on a road surface while performing various operations, if the dust on the road surface can be collected and the road surface cleaned at the same time as the operation, the dust does not adhere to the road surface and the dust is not scattered. Therefore, there is a problem how to construct a traveling vehicle such as a work vehicle to clean a road surface while the traveling vehicle such as a work vehicle is working.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems. When a traveling vehicle such as a forklift or the like travels on a road surface while performing various operations, dirt on the road surface is collected together with traveling of tires, An object of the present invention is to provide a garbage cleaner that can be attached to a traveling vehicle that can be easily attached to an existing or new traveling vehicle without causing garbage to adhere or scatter on the road surface.
[0009]
The present invention relates to a traveling vehicle having a vehicle body and a traveling tire rotatably mounted on the vehicle body, a refuse collection container attached to the vehicle body, and a refuse collection container located above the refuse collection container. The present invention relates to a garbage cleaner which can be mounted on a traveling vehicle, comprising scraping means attached to the vehicle body and scraping garbage adhered to the tire by slidingly contacting the tire into the garbage collection container.
[0010]
In addition, the scraping means and the refuse collection container are attached to a bracket which is detachably fixed to the vehicle body to form an attachment.
[0011]
A rotatable brush in contact with the tread surface of the tire, a support arm one end of which is swingably supported by a pivot provided on the bracket and the other end of which freely rotatably mounts the brush on a free end of the other end; , And a spring having one end attached to the support arm and the other end attached to the bracket for pressing the brush against the tread surface of the tire.
[0012]
The bracket is provided with a refuse guide plate near an entrance of the refuse collection container for guiding the refuse scraped from the tire by the brush of the scraping means to the refuse collection container.
[0013]
A wall surface of the refuse guide plate and the refuse collection container on a side facing the tire has a function of a mudguard cover.
[0014]
The traveling vehicle is a work vehicle such as a forklift that performs various operations by traveling on a road surface such as a factory, a warehouse, and a road.
[0015]
The bracket to which the refuse collection container and the scraping means are attached is attached to a fender provided on the vehicle main body or the vehicle main body behind the tire of a front wheel and / or in front of the tire of a rear wheel. .
[0016]
Since the garbage cleaner that can be mounted on the traveling vehicle is configured as described above, it can be easily attached to a traveling vehicle such as an existing or new working vehicle as an attachment consisting of a garbage collection container and a bracket provided with scraping means. In particular, when traveling on the road surface of a work vehicle, dust, such as abrasion powder, dust, dust, etc., of the tire, which adheres to the tire and rotates together with the tire, is scraped off from the tire by a brush, and the dust is removed by a dust guide. Guided by the board and collected in a garbage collection container. Therefore, the dust falling on the road surface is not scattered by the tires of the work vehicle or adhered to the road surface and does not stain the road surface, so that the work vehicle functions as a kind of cleaning vehicle.
[0017]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, an embodiment of a garbage cleaner that can be mounted on a traveling vehicle according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[0018]
As shown in FIG. 1, the garbage cleaner 4 according to the present invention is mounted so as to be mountable on a traveling vehicle 1 including a work vehicle such as a forklift for performing various operations by traveling on a road surface 12 such as a factory, a warehouse, or a road. It can be easily attached to and removed from the existing traveling vehicle 1 as well as the new traveling vehicle 1. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, the traveling vehicle 1 as a work vehicle includes a fork 20 in front of the vehicle body 2, and the vehicle body 2 has a pair of masts 24 separated by a crosshead 25. ing. A lift bracket 22 is attached to the mast 24 so that the lift chain 23 pivots and moves up and down by the operation of the hydraulic device 21. The lift bracket 22 is provided with a pair of forks 20. The work vehicle 1 on which the engine 19 is mounted is provided with a canopy 26, a traveling handle 29 and a driver's cab 27 on the vehicle body 2, and the driver operates the operation lever 28 while the engine 19 is driving. The hydraulic device 21 is operated, the fork 20 is moved up and down, and the load on the fork 20 is conveyed and the load on the fork 20 is unloaded.
[0019]
The garbage cleaner 4 is attached to a mudguard cover or fender 30 in the vicinity of the running tire 3 rotatably attached to the vehicle body 2, and a garbage collection container 7 attached to the vehicle body 2 and a garbage collector. A scraping means 15 is disposed above the container 7 and attached to the vehicle body 2 and slidably comes into contact with the tire 3 to scrape off dust attached to the tread 13 of the tire 3 and store the dust in the dust collection container 7. ing. Further, in the figure, the attachment 5 of the garbage cleaner 4 is attached to the fender 30 of the vehicle main body 2, but is not necessarily limited to this structure, and the type in which the fender 30 is not provided in the vehicle main body 2. In the case of the traveling vehicle 1, the bracket 6 constituting the attachment 5 of the garbage cleaner 4 may be attached directly to the vehicle body 2 in the vicinity of the tire 3 as a matter of course.
[0020]
The scraping means 15 and the refuse collection container 7 constitute a kind of attachment 5 attached to a bracket 6 which is detachably fixed to the vehicle body 2. The scraping means 15 includes a rotatable brush 9 in contact with the tread surface 13 of the tire 3, one end of which is swingably supported by a pivot shaft 11 provided on the bracket 6, and a rotatable brush 9 at the free end of the other end. It has a support arm 8 that is supported and a spring 10 that has one end attached to the support arm 8 and the other end attached to the bracket 6 for pressing the brush 9 attached to the free end of the support arm 8 against the tread surface 13 of the tire 3. I have.
[0021]
Specifically, as shown in FIG. 5, the pair of support arms 8 are fixed to a cross bar 34 attached to a pair of columns 33 that are swingably supported on the pivot 11. Is configured to simultaneously swing when the brush 9 rotates in contact with the tire 3. The brush 9 is rotatably attached to a rotating shaft 14 provided at the lower end of the pair of support arms 8.
[0022]
A refuse guide plate 16 is provided on the bracket 6 near the entrance 17 of the refuse collection container 7 to guide the refuse scraped from the tire 3 by the brush 9 of the scraping means 15 to the refuse collection container 7. . The wall surface 18 of the refuse guide plate 16 and the refuse collection container 7 facing the tire 3 has the function of a kind of mudguard cover or fender 30.
[0023]
The bracket 6 to which the refuse collection container 7 and the scraping means 15 are attached can be attached to any location as long as it is close to the tire 3 of the traveling vehicle 1 as a working vehicle. For example, in the front wheel 31, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, it is preferable to attach the bracket 6 to the fender 30 provided on the vehicle body 2 behind the tire 3 from the viewpoint of dust collection. In the rear wheel 32, as shown in FIG. 3, it is preferable to attach the bracket 6 to a fender 30 provided on the vehicle body 2 in front of the tire 3 from the viewpoint of dust collection.
[0024]
Since the brush 9 is pressed against the tread 13 of the tire 3 by the spring 10 on the dust cleaning device 4, dust attached to the tread 13 of the tire 3 when the traveling vehicle, that is, the work vehicle 1 travels on the road surface 12, It is scraped off by the brush 3 and stored in the refuse collection container 7 along the refuse guide plate 16. In the garbage cleaning device 4, when the garbage is full, or when the garbage collection container 7 is periodically removed, the garbage collection container 7 itself can be used repeatedly. is there. It is preferable that the refuse collection container 7 be attached to the bracket 6 so as to be easily detachable, and the mounting structure to the bracket 6 is not limited.
[0025]
The garbage cleaner 4 is configured as described above, but is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, although not shown, the refuse collection container 7 may be formed into a type having an open bottom when a slide plate is attached to the bottom and the plate is pulled out. In that case, refuse is extremely easily removed. be able to. Further, the shape of the bracket 6 itself can be changed so as to conform to the shape of the vehicle body 2, and the shape of the refuse collection container 7, the scraping means 15 and the refuse guide plate 16 is adapted to conform thereto. Can also be changed. In any case, the traveling vehicle 1 rotates the tires 3 for traveling, and the dust cleaner 4 is mounted near the rotating tires 3, so that the dust cleaner 4 itself gets caught in the tires 3. Needless to say, it is necessary to securely and robustly attach the tire 3 to the traveling vehicle 1 in consideration of safety so that anything other than the brush 9 comes into contact with the tire 3 and is not damaged.
[0026]
【The invention's effect】
Since the garbage cleaner that can be mounted on this traveling vehicle is configured as described above, when a work vehicle such as a forklift travels on a road surface such as a factory, a warehouse, or a road to perform various types of work, the garbage cleaner can be mounted on a road surface. The tire itself picks up garbage such as abrasion powder, dust and dirt that has fallen into the garbage, and collects the garbage in the garbage collection container, cleans the road surface, and removes dirt such as abrasion powder, dust and dust. As a result, the road surface is always cleaned, and a clean working environment can be maintained for the workers. Also, since the road surface has already been almost completely cleaned by the traveling of the work vehicle, cleaning at the end of work is easy and cleaning is easy. Work time can be reduced.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a traveling vehicle such as a forklift equipped with a garbage cleaner according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a side view showing a state in which the garbage cleaner according to the present invention is mounted on front wheels of a traveling vehicle.
FIG. 3 is a side view showing a state in which the garbage cleaner according to the present invention is mounted on rear wheels of a traveling vehicle.
FIG. 4 is an enlarged side view showing a state in which the garbage cleaner according to the present invention is mounted on a front wheel of a traveling vehicle.
FIG. 5 is a front view showing a garbage cleaner that can be mounted on the traveling vehicle of FIG. 4;
[Explanation of symbols]
1 traveling vehicle (forklift)
2 Vehicle body (frame)
Reference Signs List 3 Tire 4 Garbage cleaner 5 Attachment 6 Bracket 7 Garbage collection container 8 Support arm 9 Brush 10 Spring 11 Pivot shaft 12 Road surface 13 Tread surface 14 Rotary shaft (brush)
15 Scrapping means 16 Garbage guide plate 17 Entrance (garbage collection container)
18 Wall (mudguard)
30 Mudguard cover (Fender)
31 Front wheel 32 Rear wheel
Reference of the description of the code
1 traveling vehicle (forklift)
2 Vehicle body (frame)
Reference Signs List 3 Tire 4 Garbage cleaner 5 Attachment 6 Bracket 7 Garbage collection container 8 Support arm 9 Brush 10 Spring 11 Pivot shaft 12 Road surface 13 Tread surface 14 Rotary shaft (brush)
15 Scrapping means 16 Garbage guide plate 17 Entrance (garbage collection container)
18 Wall (mudguard)
19 Engine 20 Fork 21 Hydraulic device 22 Lift bracket 23 Lift chain 24 Mast 25 Cross head 26 Canopy 27 Cab 28 Operating lever 29 Handle 30 Mudguard cover (fender)
31 front wheel 32 rear wheel 33 support member 34 crossbar

Claims (7)

In a traveling vehicle having a vehicle main body and a traveling tire rotatably mounted on the vehicle main body, a garbage collection container mounted on the vehicle main body, and a garbage collection container located above the garbage collection container and provided on the vehicle main body. A dust collector attached to the traveling vehicle and scraping means for scraping dust attached to the tire by slidingly contacting the tire and scraping the dust into the dust collection container. 2. A garbage cleaner mountable on a traveling vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said scraping means and said garbage collection container are attached to a bracket which is attached to and detachably fixed to said vehicle body to form an attachment. vessel. A brush rotatable in contact with the tread surface of the tire; a support arm having one end swingably supported by a pivot provided on the bracket and rotatably mounting the brush on a free end at the other end; And a spring mounted on the support arm and one end mounted on the bracket for pressing the brush against the tread surface of the tire. vessel. The bracket is provided with a refuse guide plate near an entrance of the refuse collection container for guiding the refuse scraped from the tire by the brush of the scraping means to the refuse collection container. A garbage cleaner that can be mounted on a traveling vehicle according to claim 2 or 3. The garbage cleaner according to claim 4, wherein a wall surface of the garbage guide plate and the garbage collection container on a side facing the tire has a function of a mudguard cover. The traveling vehicle according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the traveling vehicle is a work vehicle such as a forklift that performs various operations by traveling on a road surface such as a factory, a warehouse, and a road. A garbage cleaner that can be installed. The bracket to which the refuse collection container and the scraping means are attached is attached to a fender provided on the vehicle main body or the vehicle main body behind the tire of a front wheel and / or in front of the tire of a rear wheel. A garbage cleaner that can be mounted on a traveling vehicle according to any one of claims 2 to 6.

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